- City:
- Denali National Park, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The PWA helped complete the 91-mile Denali Park Road, from the park entrance to Kantishna. The road aided mining and tourism and is still used today.
Source notes
Mead & Hunt, and Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC, Alaska Roads Historic Overview: Applied Historic Context of Alaska’s Roads, Prepared for Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 2014, p. 66. Denali Park Road, McKinley Park to Kantishna, (https://www.alaska.org/guide/denali-park-road), accessed on May 26, 2017.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee & Evan Kalish on May 26, 2017.
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